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Kate Williams

Jazz pianist/composer Kate Williams was born in London into a musical family (her father is the guitarist John Williams, her mother a classical pianist). A recipient of the John Dankworth Award For Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, she has gained a distinctive reputation as both a writer and performer. She has released several previous CDs, each one to critical acclaim, including Made Up (with her septet) and Smoke And Mirrors (with tenor legend Bobby Wellins). Both were in Mojo magazine's top ten jazz albums in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Kate's latest album Atlas And Vulcana is a further reflection of her colourful originality as a pianist/composer/arranger

On The Wing Of A Dragonfly

By Kate Williams

Label: Kwjazz
Released: 2026
Track listing: On The Wing Of A Dragonfly; Soon Enough; A Rose-Tinted Spectacle; In Sight; Snowdrops To Wintersweet; Taker's Dozen; Short Order; Jitterbug Waltz; On The Wing Of A Dragonfly (reprise).

Kate Williams: On The Wing Of A Dragonfly

by Neil Duggan
May 23, 2026

One of the many pleasures of a piano trio is that the pianist is freed from the need to complement or integrate with other harmonic voices, breathing more expansively, leaving gaps in the texture or venturing into unexpected tonal areas. The bass also benefits from this openness: it steps into sharper relief, freed from a reinforcing ...

Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook

By Chris Biscoe

Label: Trio
Released: 2023
Track listing: Music Is; Mama Chicago; Goin’ to Chicago; Aggro-Vancouver-Desperado; View From The Drawbridge; July ’79; Wasteground And Weeds; Music Is.

Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook

By Chris Biscoe

Label: Trio Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Music Is; Mama Chicago; Goin' To Chicago; Aggro-Vancouver-Desperado; View From The Drawbridge; July '79; Wasteground And Weeds; Music Is.

Chris Biscoe: Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook

by Chris May
December 5, 2022

Chris Biscoe has played in the bands led by the great British composer Mike Westbrook and/or his wife, singer and lyricist Kate Westbrook, every year since 1979 bar one. He is the Westbrooks' first-call saxophonist and clarinetist and the love runs both ways. It also rings out on every track of this beautiful album.

Mike Westbrook: London Bridge Live In Zurich 1990

by Chris May
November 15, 2022

Viewed from the other side of the Atlantic, Mike Westbrook is probably Britain's best kept secret. A composer, pianist and tubaist--above all, composer--Westbrook's recording career began in the late 1960s. Since then he has released upwards of fifty albums, spanning jazz rock through jazz and contemporary-classical fusions such as the 2 x CD London Bridge Live ...

New Year New Decade

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 20, 2020

Happy New Year! The first broadcast of the new decade included new releases by Works for Me, Viktori Japilatovic and Bill Cunliffe, with birthday shout outs to vocalists Susannah McCorkle (pictured), Nancy Lamott, Michelle Walker, Georgia Mancio and Jelena Jovović, saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, pianists Myra Melford and Lisa Hilton, clarinetist Anat Cohen and Clark Terry, among ...

Finding Home

By Kate Williams

Label: Kwjazz
Released: 2019
Track listing: One For The Bees; Camminando, Camminando; No More Blues; Don't Go To Strangers; The last Boy on Earth; Halfway; We Walk; The Key; Finding Home; Heartwood; Tell The River; Play

Notre Vie Comme Un Western

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 17, 2019

The Bastille Day broadcast included new releases from John Finbury & Thelma De Freitas, Calabria Foti, Peter Eldridge & Kenny Werner and Maggie Gould plus birthday shout outs to songwriters Jimmy McHugh, Joan Whitney, saxophonist Lauren Sevian, drummer Gayelynn McKinney, cellist Akua Dixon, bassist Iris Ornig, vocalists Suzanne Pittson, Debbie Harry, Luciana Souza and trumpter Carol ...